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Music of Animals

Gresham College Lecture Series

LSO St Luke's

Wednesday 29 October 2025 • 6pm

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Jerwood Hall, LSO St Luke’s

Professor Milton Mermikides speaker

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Tickets free, advance booking necessary.

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Do animals make music? Are the languages of whales and birds truly songs?

To answer this, we must first understand what we mean by music as human animals – and how it might emerge across the animal kingdom. From Messiaen’s transcriptions of bird calls to the rhythmic gaits of horses echoing in the blues, we’ll hear how animal behaviours form an unwitting orchestra and explore whether music is uniquely human or a shared language with our animal cousins.

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